Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], November 2, 1860 We learn from a gentleman from Waco, that the way bill brought by the stage driver just previous to his departure, stated that one side of the square of La Grange had been burnt. We learn that two barns in Rusk county, one in Tarrant county and a [...]

Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], November 2, 1860 Robinson’s Mill, Tarrant Co., Tex.} Sept. 25, 1860.} To the Editors of the White Man, Dear Sirs: —The vigilant committee at this place having had under consideration the conduct of Salathiel Goff, about 60 years of age; voice rough; nearly all his front teeth out; weighs about 175 [...]

Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860. It appears from returns in possession of the Auditor of Public Accounts that there are at the present time, in Virginia, 53,456 slave owners over 24 years of age. This is about one-fourth of the entire portion of the population who have arrived at years of maturity. The [...]

Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860. John, a slave, was arraigned before the Mayor yesterday, on a charge of stealing a piece of calico from his master, Joseph Rosenbaum. As John acknowledged the theft, but little time was occupied in disposing of his case, and he was sentenced to thirty lashes. The calico was [...]

Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860. In the Sixteenth Congressional District of Ohio, Cutler, Republican, was elected by sixty-four majority over Jewett, Democrat. In a large number of precincts negroes voted the Republican ticket, and in consequence the Democratic candidate was defeated. The Marietta Republican gives the number of negroes voting in several precincts.–enough [...]

Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860. A letter from Texas, written by a Virginia officer of the K. G. C.’s to the Norfolk Argus, says that organization is laboring under unexpected difficulties effecting their plans, which, however, they expect to overcome. He adds: Gen. Houston, with whom Gen. Bickley and myself had a conference [...]

Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA, November 1, 1860. James Brooks, baggage master on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, was killed near Murfreesboro’, Tenn., on the 26th ult. He was standing on the top of a car as the train passed beneath a bridge, when his head struck the lower beam of the bridge, and he was [...]

[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, November 1, 1860 State of Arkansas,} County of Greene.} On this 10th day of October, 1860, at a regular session of the County Court of Greene county, Arkansas, it was brought to the notice of the County Court, that the property of our citizens was daily endangered by the acts of [...]

Daily Advocate  [Baton Rouge, LA], October 29, 1860 Scores of Texas and North Louisiana bound emigrants now line our thoroughfares. A majority of those passing through this place we observe are of the wealthy class, who having to abandon the old and worn out lands of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolina’s, are seeking new homes [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], October 27, 1860  The most disgraceful slur upon the poor man appeared in the Breckinridge torch-light procession at Alexandria on the night of the 13th inst. The transparency bore upon it, a lean haggard individual with his clothes worn thread bare and torn, with his rifle, leading a dog of lean [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], October 27, 1860, Every one who has had any experience in the newspaper business will heartily concur in the views presented by a Virginia paper, in the following article: “Many people estimate the ability of a newspaper and the industry and talent of the editor, by the quantity of editorial matter [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 27, 1860 The arrival and return of squads of men to and from this point, who belong to this mysterious order, and the apparent mismanagement on the part of their leaders, has been a matter of much comment in our community. The knights who arrived here seemed to be [...]

The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], October 27, 1860 There are many rumors afloat in regard to there being a large body of armed men, mostly from other counties, in the upper portion of this, with the avowed intention of running off every Mexican inhabitant. We hope the rumor may prove untrue, although it is founded [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], October 27, 1860 California papers inform us that, owing to the rearrangement of the Salt Lake and Denver mails, the famous pony express has been placed upon the retired list. The state of mind of the pony, upon receiving this cheering intelligence may be more easily imagined than described. Our special [...]

Indianola [TX] Courier, October 27, 1860 Correspondence of the Crisis.] Anti-Wide Awakes.  Saluria, Texas, Oct. 10, 1860.  Messrs. Editors:–Feeling a deep and abiding interest in the wellbeing of the South and its institutions, and the perpetuity of the Union—hallowed by so many glorious achievements— founded upon integrity, honor, and a just regard to the equality [...]

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 24, 1860 The Columbus (Ga.) Sun announces that Mr. J. W. Booth the young tragedian, connected with the theatrical company now performing there, was seriously wounded, a few nights since, by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Mr. Canning. He (Mr. Canning) was [...]

Daily Advocate  [Baton Rouge, LA], October 22, 1860 We are glad to see the people of our State everywhere preparing for the crisis which is at hand. As an offset to the “Wide-Awakes” of the North, “Minute Men” are organizing in all the principal districts of South Carolina. Their object is to form an armed [...]

Daily Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 22, 1860 We are glad to see the people of our State everywhere preparing for the crisis which is at hand. As an offset to the “Wide-Awakes” of the North, “Minute Men” are organizing in all the principal districts of South Carolina. Their object is to form an armed [...]

Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], October 20, 1860 Twelve families, numbering some sixty or seventy persons, arrived in town on Wednesday last, directly from Texas, driven away by the terrible destruction of human life which is now being carried forward there by the pro-slavery demons who hold sway in that portion of our country. These persons [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], October 20, 1860 We are under especial obligation to the proprietors and publisher of the La. Democrat for the loan of their “Eagle” for the purpose of embellishing our posters for the grand Union rally which takes place next Saturday. The “Eagle” is the grand emblem of American freeman, and, as [...]

The Constitutional [Alexandria, LA], October 20, 1860  After a vast outlay of means, the long anticipated procession of the Breckinridge party was made a reality on Saturday evening last. For the past two or three weeks extensive preparations have been going on, and no little labor expended in the way of drumming up recruits to [...]

Alamo Express  [San Antonio, TX], October 22, 1860 What has become of the twenty-five gas posts the city purchased?  Are they upright or horizontal? do they burn gas or do they generate gas in Aldermen? The facts are these, the posts belong to the city, and have been paid for at the rate of $25 [...]

Marshall Texas Republican, October 20, 1860 We are in receipt of a letter from our friend Otis G. Welch, of Denton, giving some of the particulars, relative to the termination of Mr. Bewley’s career. He was the man to whom the Bailey letter was addressed. He was arrested near Cassville, Bear county, Mo., by the [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], October 19, 1860 An examination was held at Charleston, S. C., on Friday morning, by Mayor Macbeth, of one Mrs. Catherine Bottsford, a female or rather prepossessing appearance, charged by several respectable citizens with uttering and disseminating among the slave population seditious sentiments. During the investigation she admitted entertaining the Abolition [...]